Washboard



V. M. DE CANO.

WASHBOARD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 13, 1920- 1 ,4()5,764 Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

vro'ron M. DE GANG, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 RAYMOND r. STAR, OF

- CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WASHBOABD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

Application filed February 13, 1920. Serial No. 358,369.

T 0 all whom it many concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR M. DE CAN-o, a citizen of Argentina, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVashboards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip-tion.

The invention relates to wash-boards and its object is to provide an improved board which will prevent undue wear on the clothes.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Fig. 1 is a front view of a wash-board embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken on line 44 of Fig. 1.

The improved wash-board comprises side rails 5, a bottom rail 6, a top rail 8, a back 7 and a cross-bar 9 adjacent the lower end of the back, said rails and back-bar being rigidly secured together to form a rigid frame. Rails 5 are notched, as at 15, im-

mediately below the lower edge of back 7 to receive the edge of'a wash-tuband prevent the board from slipping downwardly therein while it is being used. Notches 1 1,

extending and sloping inwardly from the margins of the back, serve to receive the ed 'e of the wash-tub. to hold the board at different inclinations to suit the user. The upper face of bar 9 is sloped backwardly and V-shaped notches 13 are formed in said bar adjacent the back 7 so that water splashed onto the back 7 will drain into the tub. The back 7 is usually used as a soap rest and these notches 13 also direct any soap drippings into the tub.

The operative surface for washing is formed by short rollers. 11 which have spherically crowned peripheries. Cross rods 10 are suitably supported in the side rails 5 adjacent the joints between the reduced ends of the rollers on the adjacent rods. The rollers are individually rotatable on the rods. As a result of this construction, the I clothes, when forced over the crowned surfaces and between said surfaces and the reduced ends of adjacent rollers, will be subjected to squeezing, and by reason of the different surface-speeds of the peripheral portions of the rollers, to a massaging action and friction. This results in thorough cleansing of the clothes without destructive friction or rubbing.

These rollers'are usually formed of wood, and to prevent them from becoming rough and warped by the water, they are treated in and soaked with a mixture of linseed oil and parafline to render them SUbSttlltlZLllY non-absorbent and smooth. I

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details set forth, since these may be modified within: the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a wash-board, the combination of a. frame, a series of cross-rods mounted in the frame, and an extended series of short individually rotatable rollers mounted in close relation on each of the rods and provided with crowned peripheries.

2. In a wash-board, the combination of a frame, a series of cross-rods mounted in the frame, and an extended series of short individually rotatable rollers mounted in close relation on each of the rods and provided with crowned peripheries, the crowned peripheries on the adjacent rods being relatively staggered. V

VICTOR M. DE CANO. 

